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Long Beach California recently passed a law banning self-check outs for any items that stores keep locked up: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/self-checkout-kiosks-long-beach-may-be-closing-new-city-ordinance/3782541/ They are basically making retailers put their money where their mouth is. ...

Oddly, I cannot remotely imagine this topic impacting thinking on joining such a group. This confirms my pov about the topic. If someone was serious about joining a certain congregation and the ONLY reason stopping or confirming that decision is this topic…..you need to rethink. I think how a congr...

Yes, the British monarch is the head of the church. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the highest church office. This is the news JohnL is referencing: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-names-mullally-first-female-archbishop-lead-church-england-2025-10-03/ Considering that the last guy resigned in d...

Since folks keep posting on the RCC position let me clarify. There is no such thing as divorce period. What that means is, the church does not recognize a legal divorce to break the religious marriage. So civil divorced people remain married in the churches eyes. Ur that means the divorce is not si...

I am speechless. I cannot conceive of a church taking any “action” over a legal divorce. I see no indication anywhere in the Bible that a societal legal divorce offends God. I see remarriage as offending God. Tell us, what is the process for getting a divorce within the Roman Catholic Church? I thi...

JayP wrote: ↑Thu Oct 02, 2025 7:07 am I am speechless. I cannot conceive of a church taking any “action” over a legal divorce.
I see no indication anywhere in the Bible that a societal legal divorce offends God.
I see remarriage as offending God.

Tell us, what is the process for getting a divorce within the Roman Catholic Church?

In Anabaptist circles divorce is a religious process. My church has a process to follow and permission is rarely granted. Basically requires cruelty / abuse of the children thus necessitating a legal divorce, or else adultery which we believe breaks the marriage bond. In your church is there an act...

I have no idea what or when anything is going to happen in the future. And I don't think anyone else does either.

But I also don't worry about it either. Since eschatology doesn't affect how I live my life one way or the other.

I no longer attend an Anabaptist church except when we are visiting family. But at the church where my wife and I most frequently attend, no one is excluded from the church based on divorce or marital status. In fact, no sincere person is excluded from the church for any reason I can think of. All a...

I really don’t get it when the scriptures clearly state no man knows the day or the hour… not even the Son of Man himself. Like any other inconvenient scripture, people find a way to prove it doesn't mean what it says. I think I've heard at least 3 such explanations. 1) It's not possible to know th...